Biography
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THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE – Arthur Symons
Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. That’s some deep stuff there, if one thinks about it. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed to give certain significations, as we have agreed to…
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PROPHETS OF DISSENT: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy – Otto Heller
Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Tolstoy:They are radicals in thought, and reformers of society, inasmuch as their speculations and aspirations are relevant to practical problems of living. And yet what gives them such a durable hold on our attention is not their particular apostolate, but the fact that their artistic impulses ascend…
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Sergeant York and his people: The true tale of the making of a man – Sam K. Cowan
From a log cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the trenches of Worldwar 1. He was untutored in the ways of the world, and – like so many other young men of his generation – had to learn the hard way. Caught by the…
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Knut Hamsun – Hanna Astrup Larsen
Knut Hamsun has become identified in our minds with the lonely figure that recurs again and again in his earlier books, the Wanderer who is forever outside of organized society and forever pays the penalty of being different from the crowd and unable to conform to its standards. That this lonely creature is really himself…